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Germany’s Self-Centered War Debate

A year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germans are still debating what role they should play in the war, and what the goal should be. Yet by focusing so much on Germany’s internal strategic evolution, they risk missing the bigger picture.

BERLIN – Two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Jürgen Habermas, perhaps Germany’s leading public intellectual, published a commentary that triggered one of the country’s most ferocious political debates in decades. Habermas asked how Germany should position itself in the widening Russian-Ukrainian war. Germans still haven’t reached any agreement on an answer.

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